Counting the general ledger, more than 100 organizations wrote to Biden, asking the United States to apologize for losing money
According to a report quoted by the Global Times from Reuters, the United States conducted large-scale nuclear tests near the Marshall Islands in the forties and fifties of the last century, but the United States did not do a good job in the aftermath. Therefore, in mid-December last year, a large number of organizations jointly accused the US government and sent a letter to US President Biden demanding an apology for the incident and corresponding compensation measures for it.
The letter was sent to Greenpeace, the U.S. Arms Control Association, Physicians for Social Responsibility of the United States, and the Marshall Islands Education Initiative, in the hope that the United States would abide by its commitments under the Free Association Agreement.
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (Marshall Islands) is located in the Micronesia region of the central Pacific Ocean. The country is an island nation consisting of more than a thousand archipelagos, large and small, and is known as the black pearl of the South Pacific Ocean because of its beautiful environment, no industrial pollution, and warm climate.
The island began to be controlled by the United States in 1944 and became independent in 1986, but during the time under the actual control of the United States, the United States conducted more than 60 nuclear tests of all sizes here, the most exaggerated time the United States detonated the "Cheer Castle" hydrogen bomb with a strength equivalent to 1,000 "Little Boys" here, and the United States did not evacuate the local people at that time, causing a large number of casualties and causing serious damage to the local ecological environment.
Survivors at the time recalled that after the disaster, they and those around them began to lose their hair, and many people suffered burns on their skin, while many others developed diseases. Not only that, but the United States also transported nuclear waste in its territory to the Marshall Islands for dumping, and the dumping site still looks dilapidated to this day.
Under the pressure of public opinion, the United States signed the Free Association Agreement with the Marshall Islands in 1986 and promised to compensate for its previous actions, but the United States has not actually paid all of this compensation to this day, and has tried to perfunctory things at a very low price.
Since the Free Association Agreement expires in 2023, these hundreds of organizations are in such a hurry, hoping that the United States can sign a new agreement with the Republic of the Marshall Islands to return the "old scores" and that the United States government will apologize to the people of the Marshall Islands.
However, the United States has said on the surface that it wants to solve these problems, but the United States has already shown its next actions with practical actions, so this joint letter will only sink into the sea.
This is not the first time that the United States has abandoned the so-called "allies", when withdrawing troops in Afghanistan, the United States did not notify other allies in advance or even took them to leave, and the United States once stationed tens of thousands of troops in Syria for the oil fields of Syria, and the invasion of the United States in Iraq displaced hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people, and now the Russian-Ukrainian conflict pulls NATO countries together to "arch the fire" behavior, in the final analysis, the allies in the mouth of the United States are allies when the United States can use it, and you are "consumables" when the United States can't use you.
Source: Chinanet Military
